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I feel the pain. When you are switching platforms from anything to a Mac for the first time and your Mac Book comes with, say, a German keyboard, you will find
by heffer 7y ago
I feel the pain. When you are switching platforms from anything to a Mac for the first time and your Mac Book comes with, say, a German keyboard, you will find yourself googling where to find all the different brackets you need for coding first thing as they are not printed on the keys. Judging from this article this seems to be similar for many other keyboard layouts as well.
- reaperducer 7y agoI just did an image search, and you're right — no brackets printed on the keyboard. I find this interesting, because back in the 90's I happened to be in Austria and I bought a German keyboard for the sole reason that it had all of the brackets on it, and the US keyboard I was using at the time didn't. Keyboards can be so random. I wonder what goes into these kinds of decisions amongst keyboard designers. (I know there's an ISO committee for this, but we all know "standard" ≠ "best")
- heffer 7y agoFun fact: If you use muscle memory, coming from a German non-Mac keyboard layout to a Mac keyboard layout you'll end up constantly closing applications. The combination for @ on non-Mac keyboards is AltGr + Q and on Mac is Alt+L. Now if you use your left hand to type @ the AltGr key is roughly where the Command key is on an Apple keyboard. Thus you end up pressing Command + Q: quit. It's great fun when adding additional recipients to a lengthy email you are writing. Thank god for auto save and terminal buffers.
- Symbiote 7y agoOn every Danish PC keyboard I've seen (and the one I own), the AltGr+… combination keys are printed on the keys. From image searches, it looks like Apple only print @. Typical Apple form-over-function.